ROTTEN TOMATOES: Brett Buckalew

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

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	The Fall
	Charlie Wilson's War
	Southland Tales
	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
	La Vie En Rose
	Once
	Angel-A
	Paris, Je T'aime
	Fracture
	Disturbia
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	Redbelt
	Stop-Loss
	Trade
	Next
	Rush Hour 3
	Lucky You
	In the Land of Women
	The Last Mimzy
	The Number 23
	Catch and Release
	more...

This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 62% of the time.

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No Rating	Click here to read article -- Metromix.com Posted Jun 24, 2008	Crazy Love (2007)	78%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Metromix.com Posted Jun 24, 2008	Black Book (2007)	76%
	"The best movie of the year so far by a wide mile." -- FilmStew.com Posted May 12, 2008	The Fall (2008)	53%
	"The journey has its charms, but the destination calls to mind Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?"" -- FilmStew.com Posted May 2, 2008	Redbelt (2008)	72%
	"*Much of Stop-Loss' first act feels like the cast of Hee-Haw* auditioning for a Best Years of Our Lives remake.*" -- FilmStew.com* Posted Mar 31, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
N/A	"Actor Interview - Says Ryan Phillipe: "Whatever my personal feelings about a war, I couldn't impose [them] on my child."" -- FilmStew.com Posted Mar 28, 2008	Stop-Loss (2008)	65%
N/A	"One could imagine the film's makers, surely knowledgeable of Holmes' ailing career, asking: how could any viewer loathe a character so groovy?" -- FilmStew.com Posted Jan 21, 2008	Mad Money (2008)	21%
	"A mildly engaging holiday season diversion that will evaporate from many viewers� memories at a speed so rapid it may put Santa�s sleigh to shame." -- FilmStew.com Posted Dec 21, 2007	Charlie Wilson's War (2007)	83%
	"Reminiscent of the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut, with its mix of sci-fi mythology, absurdist humor and political outrage." -- FilmStew.com Posted Nov 14, 2007	Southland Tales (2007)	34%
N/A	"Actor Interview - Says Richard Gere: "Everything in my life is a tribute to my wife. Everything. It doesn�t work without her. Nothing does."" -- FilmStew.com Posted Nov 2, 2007	I'm Not There (2007)	78%
	"*Treats sex slavery with roughly the same amount of tact and complexity with which the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Hard Target* treated homelessness.*" -- FilmStew.com* Posted Oct 2, 2007	Trade (2007)	27%
1.5/5	"Next spurs unintended laughs." -- Metromix.com Posted Sep 29, 2007	Next (2007)	30%
	"In its nakedly revealed tremors of fear and insecurity, Affleck's tour de force is reminiscent of the similarly raw work of the late, great John Cazale." -- FilmStew.com Posted Sep 20, 2007	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)	75%
N/A	"Actor Interview - Says $25 million man Chris Tucker: "I said, �Man, I�m gonna get drunk!� They don�t do that in America. They think you won�t show back up!�" -- FilmStew.com Posted Aug 10, 2007	Rush Hour 3 (2007)	20%
	"Roman Polanski has a confounding two-scene cameo as a customs official who gives Carter and Lee a full cavity search. (Har har.)" -- FilmStew.com Posted Aug 10, 2007	Rush Hour 3 (2007)	20%
N/A	"Filmmaker Interview - A DVD Extra led star-director Steve Buscemi to his entirely appropriate leading lady Sienna Miller." -- FilmStew.com Posted Jul 16, 2007	Interview (2007)	57%
N/A	"Filmmaker Interview - Says writer-director John Dahl: "I like to kind of streamline the story to the point where it�s just the basic elements."" -- FilmStew.com Posted Jun 22, 2007	You Kill Me (2007)	79%
	"Doesn�t quite keep up with the grand showmanship and emotional complexity of the performance at its center, but has a few impressive tricks up its sleeve." -- Metromix.com Posted Jun 15, 2007	La Vie En Rose (2007)	74%
N/A	"Filmmaker Interview - Says director Luc Besson: "�I�m pretty naked in this one... Because I was so naked, I think it had to be in French and in Paris."" -- FilmStew.com Posted May 30, 2007	Angel-A (2007)	43%
	"You leave the theatre feeling like you�re walking on air. And isn�t that all you can ask of any musical?" -- Metromix.com Posted May 24, 2007	Once (2007)	97%
	"Luc Besson's characteristic flair for visual expression here manifests itself in the most subdued way imaginable." -- FilmStew.com Posted May 22, 2007	Angel-A (2007)	43%
	"Alexander Payne strikes the same balance of snarky humor and sneaky empathy that has made his body of work so distinct in contemporary American cinema." -- FilmStew.com Posted May 22, 2007	Paris, Je T'aime (2007)	84%
N/A	"Filmmaker Interviews - Admits writer-producer-director Winkler: "I said, �I�m not making a film where I could have a rapper come in with the whole entourage...'"" -- FilmStew.com Posted May 9, 2007	Home of the Brave (2006)	23%
2/5	"All but the most die-hard Texas Hold 'Em fans will be fighting the urge to snooze." -- Metromix.com Posted May 3, 2007	Lucky You (2007)	28%
	"*Only slightly less clumsy overall than Against the Ropes, but at least it plays to co-star Meg Ryan�s ability to suggest volumes of repressed emotion." -- FilmStew.com* Posted Apr 24, 2007	In the Land of Women (2007)	43%
	"*The smart conclusion contains a pair of twists that are actually plausible (rare these days), and, all in all, Fracture* is supremely solid stuff.*" -- Metromix.com* Posted Apr 20, 2007	Fracture (2007)	71%
N/A	"Celebrity Interview - Says Ryan Gosling: "There's a lot of erosion that takes place in Hollywood... It�s fun to do an extreme version of things you�re afraid of becoming."" -- FilmStew.com Posted Apr 19, 2007	Fracture (2007)	71%
	"Like those gleeful, inner-child-pleasing pulp-horror rides that Steven Spielberg and Joe Dante perfected a couple decades ago." -- Metromix.com Posted Apr 13, 2007	Disturbia (2007)	67%
N/A	"*Actor Interview - Says Disturbia* star Shia LaBeouf: "You can be a personality, or you can be an actor. You can�t do both.�*" -- FilmStew.com* Posted Apr 12, 2007	Disturbia (2007)	67%
N/A	"Filmmaker Interviews - Says director Lasse Hallstr�m: "To work with Richard Gere was really the most pleasurable time I�ve had with a male lead."" -- FilmStew.com Posted Apr 6, 2007	The Hoax (2007)	85%
	"Gary is the kind of guy who can actually score with the pick-up line, �Damn! And I thought I was good-looking!�" -- Metromix.com Posted Mar 30, 2007	The Lookout (2007)	87%
N/A	"Filmmaker Interview - Says writer-director Scott Frank: "I had a decent personal life. I was really comfortable. And I thought, what a great way to * that all up."" -- FilmStew.com Posted Mar 28, 2007	The Lookout (2007)	87%
	"*Roger Waters' song is ultimately the work of a sell-out desperately trying to sound like a profound hippie prophet. As it happens, so is The Last Mimzy." -- FilmStew.com* Posted Mar 26, 2007	The Last Mimzy (2007)	53%
N/A	"Filmmaker Interviews - Screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin's reaction to the news that New Line exec Bob Shaye was going to direct? "I thought, �Anybody but Bob.'"" -- FilmStew.com Posted Mar 22, 2007	The Last Mimzy (2007)	53%
	"Not a fully great film, but damn near close; witty, charming, and ultimately rather touching." -- FilmStew.com Posted Mar 3, 2007	Avenue Montaigne (2007)	74%
	"The titular novel is written by an anonymous scribe who goes by the moniker Topsy Kretts (Get it? Like �Top Secrets�? Yeah, I didn�t laugh either.)" -- FilmStew.com Posted Feb 23, 2007	The Number 23 (2007)	8%
	"If it was Brad Pitt carrying the coffee and Halle Berry saying she�s not serious about him to a buddy, this movie would make over $100 million." -- FilmStew.com Posted Jan 25, 2007	Catch and Release (2007)	23%
	"*A sublime visionary achievement that not only outdoes Cuar�n�s previous high-water mark, Y Tu Mam� Tambi�n, but also manages to rank with other dystopian masterworks." -- FilmStew.com* Posted Jan 3, 2007	Children of Men (2006)	92%
	"In making the leap this holiday season from a Dame to a Broad, Judi Dench has chosen to apply her inestimable talents to a tried and true fork in the thespian road." -- FilmStew.com Posted Dec 28, 2006	Notes on a Scandal (2006)	87%
N/A	"Filmmaker Interviews - Says Tony Goldwyn of his leading man: "He�s that rare kind of movie star, like Tom Hanks or Dustin Hoffman, where you go, �I know him! He�s my buddy!'"" -- FilmStew.com Posted Dec 26, 2006	The Last Kiss (2006)	46%
N/A	"*Filmmaker Interviews - A funny thing happened when Tremaine was working on Wildboyz* with Jackass veterans Stephen �Steve-O� Glover and Chris Pontius.*" -- FilmStew.com* Posted Dec 26, 2006	Jackass: Number Two (2006)	61%
	"While Stallone is appropriately fiery in key scenes, it�s his way with the character�s tossed-off pearls of wisdom and one-liners that makes him especially endearing." -- FilmStew.com Posted Dec 20, 2006	Rocky Balboa (2006)	76%
	"*The idea of a Very Important Drama featuring rapper 50 Cent and vapid TV starlet Jessica Biel in major roles seems more like a gag straight out of Get Shorty." -- Metromix.com* Posted Dec 15, 2006	Home of the Brave (2006)	23%
	"*There�s good news for Jude Law fans. With The Holiday, the actor has taken a sad career song and started to make it better." -- FilmStew.com* Posted Dec 8, 2006	The Holiday (2006)	47%
	"*Ledger�s first film since the one-two punch of Brokeback* and Casanova reinforces the almost always accurate admonition �Just say no to drug addiction films.�*" -- FilmStew.com* Posted Dec 7, 2006	Candy (2006)	50%
	"*On screen, Gibson was a Lethal* purveyor of hot dogging lunacy. Behind the camera, he has now subverted that Riggs energy more masterfully than ever before.*" -- FilmStew.com* Posted Dec 7, 2006	Apocalypto (2006)	65%
	"The closest mirror image of Republican Mark Foley is Mr. Hector, an unconventional educator with a fondness for groping his students� while giving them motorcycle rides." -- FilmStew.com Posted Nov 22, 2006	The History Boys (2006)	63%
	"While fans of the HBO-born duo are already giving this a Thunderous �A,� for the rest of us it�s ultimately a Tendencious �B.�" -- FilmStew.com Posted Nov 21, 2006	Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006)	52%
	"*Will Ferrell is a more than worthy heir to Lemmon, Hanks, Brazil�s Jonathan Pryce and Something Wild�s Jeff Daniels." -- FilmStew.com* Posted Nov 10, 2006	Stranger Than Fiction (2006)	73%
	"Though generally well-acted, it is rendered by director Lee Daniels with such stifling pretension and aggressive weirdness that it becomes an unintentional art-film parody." -- FilmStew.com Posted Nov 6, 2006	Shadowboxer (2006)	20%

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